Directions:

Answer each question honestly. Mark N for Never, S for Seldom, O for Often and A for Always. Mark P for Poor, F for Fair, G for Good and E for Excellent. Score 1 point for column one, 2 points for column two, 3 points for column three, and 4 points for column four. Add up the points for each Chakra before proceeding to the next one.

Chakra One: Earth, Survival, Grounding

How often do you go for a walk in the woods, park, etc.? N S O A

How often do you exercise? N S O A

How is your financial situation? P F G E

How would you rate your diet? P F G E

Do you consider yourself well grounded? N S O A

Chakra Two: Emotions, Sexuality

How would you rate your ability to express your emotions? P F G E

How would you rate your sex life? P F G E

How often do you show nurturing for others? N S O A

Do you allow yourself to relax and seek pleasure in the form of movies, hot tubs, sensual pleasures or food in a non addictive way? N S O A

How would you rate your physical flexibility? P F G E

How would you rate your emotional flexibility? P F G E

Chakra Three: Fire, Power

How would you rate your sense of personal power? P F G E

How would you rate the effectiveness of your will? P F G E

How would you rate your daily energy level? P F G E

How would you rate your metabolism? P F G E

Do you accomplish what you set out to do? N S O A

Do you feel confident? N S O A

Chakra Four: Air, Love

How often do you feel happy? N S O A

How would you rate your ability to make friends? P F G E

Do you love yourself? N S O A

Do you feel connected to the world around you? N S O A

Do you have successful long-term relationships? N S O A

Do you feel in harmony with your present situation? N S O A

Chakra Five: Sound, Communication

How would you rate your ability to communicate your ideas? P F G E

Do you listen well to others ideas? N S O A

Are you creative? N S O A

How would you rate the resonance of your voice? P F G E

Do you harmonize well with others? N S O A

Do you engage in an art form (painting, music, dance, writing, etc.)? N S O A

Chakra Six: Light, Clairvoyance

Do you notice visual details in your surroundings? N S O A

Do you have vivid dreams? N S O A

Do you have psychic experiences, i.e., precognition, clairvoyance, and uncanny coincidence? N S O A

How do you rate your ability to visualize? P F G E

Do you make use of your imagination? N S O A

Do you like bright colors? N S O A

Chakra Seven: Thought, Understanding

Do you meditate? N S O A

Do you have strong spiritual experiences? N S O A

Do you spend a lot of time intellectualizing? N S O A

Do you spend time gathering information, research, study, etc.? N S O A

Are you consciously aware of your thoughts, actions, motives, etc.? N S O A

Do you like taking tests like these? N S O A
 

Scores 21-24 indicate a very strong Chakra; scores of 6-12 indicate a weaker chakra. However; it is the distribution that is important. Compare your scores between different parts. Aside from the strongest and weakest chakras, is there a distribution pattern, e.g., higher scores in lower chakras, or higher scores in upper or middle chakras? Does this pattern coincide with your own views and how you perceive yourself?

An Analysis of Chakra Distribution

In the Chakra system energy flows in two ways. Vertically as it passes through all the chakras, and horizontally, as it passes through each chakra. The vertical channel can be thought of as the basic source, while the horizontal flow is the expression of that source. The vertical channel is basically a polaric flow between the earth and the heavens -- between matter and consciousness. In order for this flow to be full, each end of the spectrum must be opened and connected to the raw energy source particular to it.

If the first chakra is closed, then the upward flow of liberating energy is blocked off. Cosmic energy may still come through the crown chakra, but it has no pull from the lower body to move toward manifestation. Ideas may be proliferate, creativity and awareness may be high -- but the person has a hard time finishing projects or directing his life. The consciousness may consist of loosely formed ideas or fantastic but impractical schemes that never come to fruition. There is a little of that in each of us

On the other hand, if the crown chakra is closed while the first chakra remains open, our problem is reversed. The earth energy has no pull toward expression, but sits like a wallflower waiting for a dance partner. The person may be highly practical, well focused and secure financially, but lacking in creativity, hopes and dreams, or awareness of subtle planes. Plenty of plodding , but no dancing. Change is difficult, ruts and habits set in. The person has cut off his liberating current. The inability to manifest anything new results in an attachment to whatever security already exists.

These are extreme examples and most situations are not so clear cut. These combinations result in a dominant theme of either cosmic or earth energy. Some people are perfectly balanced, but this is the exception rather than the rule. Establishing the dominant theme is the first step in analyzing chakra blockages.

Both upward and downward currents can also be altered by imbalance in any of the chakras between the two ends. If a person has a block in the second chakra, for example, with heavy emphasis on the cosmic energy, then most of the chakras are still well fed (chakras 7-2 or flow from top to bottom stopping at the blocked 2nd chakra) with the greatest deprivation occurring in the first chakra. Opening the first chakra may then alleviate the problem by bringing energy up from the earth to meet and balance the cosmic energy trying to come down, if the first chakra is
closed then the cosmic energy will have a hard time filtering down as low as the second chakra.

If a person with a second chakra blockage has predominantly physical energy, then they are likely to be in sorrier shape. Now five major chakras above are all blocked from there main source -- the first chakra. In treating a person like this, one can work work on opening the crown chakra (though it is likely to be difficult) or working on the second chakra directly to allow the earth energy to rise. This example illustrates why sex is often more important to physically oriented people. Aside from mere physical stimulation, it allows passage of energy to the rest of the body, otherwise malnourished.

Likewise, the middle chakras can be analyzed in terms of the directions of the vertical flows. Fifth chakra blocks in a mental type result in an inability to manifest creativity and  communication ideas. In the physical type, they result in communication without content -- without knowledge or creativity to back them up.

In the third chakra blockages, a physical type may have power with no control over it. It may be intermittent, or intensive. In the mental type, there may be a great deal of mental strength, but an inability to really to really accomplish anything in the "real" world -- a lack of confidence in dealing with tangible things.

When the heart chakra is blocked, then of course, energy from both ends is also blocked. The mind/body communication is shut down and needs to be re-established to open things up again. Likewise, if one or the other end points (first and seventh chakras) are blocked, the energy will balance itself in one of the other chakras, depending on which current is dominant (physical-earth up. Mental-heaven down).

Each chakra is a combination of earth and cosmic energy. The ratio between these two energies determines how the chakra expresses itself.

Briefly the even chakras (2, 4 and 6) are of a receptive, yin quality, while the odds (1,3, 5 and 7) are the masculine.  Therefor men have a tendency to be stronger in survival, power, and communication, while woman have a tendency to be stronger in the emotional, loving, and intuitive realms.